CVE-2004-2730
Sysinternals PsTools before 2.05, including (1) PsExec before 1.54, (2) PsGetsid before 1.41, (3) PsInfo before 1.61, (4) PsKill before…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Sysinternals PsTools before 2.05, including (1) PsExec before 1.54, (2) PsGetsid before 1.41, (3) PsInfo before 1.61, (4) PsKill before 1.03, (5) PsList before 1.26, (6) PsLoglist before 2.51, (7) PsPasswd before 1.21, (8) PsService before 2.12, (9) PsSuspend before 1.05, and (10) PsShutdown before 2.32, does not properly disconnect from remote IPC$ and ADMIN$ shares, which allows local users to access the shares with elevated privileges by using the existing share mapping.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=28304 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 10759 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 12108 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1010737 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 8140 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- pstools-gain-admin-access(16743) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-2720 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2004-2730)Record last updated .